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The complete Tamla and Motown singles of The Satintones – the soul, R&B & popular music juggernaut's first male vocal group – and a treasure trove of rare post doo wop from the end of the 50s/beginning of the 60s! It's fascinating for the history herein – the group is hugely under-anthologized in a world of myriad Motown compilations – which is a real shame, as you'll hear in this sweet set – with numbers that rely on the doo wop influences as well as tunes more devoted to lead vocals – with a slew of early Berry Gordy productions and compositions. The set includes the then legally challenged Shirelles knockoff/answer song "Tomorrow and Always" plus "Motor City", "Going To The Hop", "Sugar Daddy", "A Love That Can Never Be", "Foot Stomping Time", My Kind Of Love", "Boogie Woogie Heart", "Because I Love You", "You Can't Beat My Lovin" and many more. 26 tracks in all.

An amazing assortment of tunes by the criminally under appreciated Ann Sexton – featuring some of the most broadly appealing female soul of the 70s! Ann's style is warm and heavily soulful, touching on the heaving funky vocal style of Marlena Shaw and Esther Phillips, with a great capacity for sweeter soul, too. Many of the tracks are rescued from the Ann's wonderful 1973 album Loving You, Loving Me – utilizing the wicky wicky guitar, punchy horn charts and groovy keys that were popping up on a lot of soul productions in the era, that great time when grittier funk arrangements were opening up enough to accommodate a sweeter, groovier style. Other tracks come from sessions recorded in '76 and '77. 22 tracks on the CD: "You've Been Gone Too Long", "You Got To Use What You Got", "Color My World Blue", "You Can't Lose With The Stuff I Use", "I Had A Fight With Love", "Keep On Holding On", "Come Back Home", "You've Been Doing Me Wrong For So Long", "It's All Over But The Shouting", "Let's Huddle Up And Cuddle Up", "Sugar Daddy" and lots more!